XANDER
I had been expecting Katherine for lunch ever since I’d gotten to my office —and that single perspective filled me with such an overwhelming surge of genuine happiness and restless anticipation that I could barely keep myself anchored to my office chair.
Naturally, my complete inability to focus had led to relentless, merciless taunting from Bruce. In the span of just an hour and a half, ever since I’d gotten there and started working, my Beta had managed to c***k at least fifty terrible jokes at my expense, mocking the way I kept checking the clock like an eager, lovesick kid.
But the exact moment he walked back into my study, the smirk entirely wiped from his face and an expression of grim, severe worry taking its place, my stomach violently knotted. It was an incredibly rare s
